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A Composite Higgs with a Heavy Composite Axion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-12-24 v2

Abstract

We consider the strong dynamics associated with a composite Higgs model that simultaneously produces dynamical axions and solves the strong CP problem. The strong dynamics arises from a new SpSp or SU(4)SU(4) hypercolor gauge group containing QCD colored hyperfermions that confines at a high scale. The hypercolor global symmetry is weakly gauged by the Standard Model electroweak gauge group and an enlarged color group, SU(N+3)×SU(N)SU(N+3) \times SU(N)'. When hyperfermion condensates form, they not only lead to an SU(5)/SO(5)SU(5)/SO(5) composite Higgs model but also spontaneously break the enlarged color group to SU(3)c×SU(N)DSU(3)_c \times SU(N)_D. At lower energies, the SU(N)DSU(N)_D group confines, producing two dynamical axions that eliminates all CP violation. Furthermore, small instantons from the SU(N)SU(N)' group can enhance the axion mass, giving rise to TeV scale axion masses that can be detected at collider experiments. Our model provides a way to unify the composite Higgs with dynamical axions, without introducing new elementary scalar fields, while also extending the range of axion masses that addresses the strong CP problem.

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@article{arxiv.2007.10875,
  title  = {A Composite Higgs with a Heavy Composite Axion},
  author = {Tony Gherghetta and Minh D. Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10875},
  year   = {2020}
}

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44 pages, 6 figures, v2: minor changes, version published in JHEP

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